The sound of a baby crying.

[Magnificentmug12]

I don’t want to ask my friends in real life as I’ll probably get funny looks so thought I’d ask here.

Does the sound of a baby crying make you feel a certain way? And I mean baby, who can’t walk or talk yet.
If it does make you feel a certain way, what are those feelings?

Also, do you respond the same to the sound of someone else’s baby crying? Either a neighbours baby or one in the supermarket?

The sound of a baby crying does something to me specifically and makes me feel a certain way and I’m just wondering if others are the same or feel something different.

OP - thank you for your posts. I think you have just solved a mystery for me. I hate the sound of a baby crying, it distresses and unnerves me. My only child, a DD is an adult now, but as a baby I never left her to cry. I would either carry her around with me in a sling or have her within my sight at all times, otherwise she would cry. It never occurred to me the crying may be a trigger to a past event. It was only your suggestion to crying being a possible trigger that made me think. I was adopted as a baby. Spent my first 6 weeks in a mother and baby home and then I spent another couple of months in a children’s home. I was probably left alone in amongst crying babies a lot of the time. I think you are on to something there!
Did anything similar happen to you?

I've felt the 'let down' tingle in my boobs that i know others also describe experiencing ever since the birth of DD1 when I hear another baby cry especially newborns. Sometimes I feel the tingle before I actually register hearing the actual cry

it makes me feel emotional and on the verge of tears.. always has done. I'm not a mother yet (through choice) but hoping one day!

@Trinacham

it makes me feel emotional and on the verge of tears.. always has done. I'm not a mother yet (through choice) but hoping one day!

to clarify, it's emotional in a good way.

Interestingly, I feel like i'm the exception judging by these posts! Perhaps there's a difference between those already mothers, those not wanting to be, and those longing to be. Makes sense.

Depends on my mood.
Ah poor baby 😔
Shut up! 🤬
Thank god I'll never have to deal with that again!

On the whole, it distresses me.

I find it very distressing, unless I can directly see that said baby is being looked after. I find the sound of children crying much worse though, I suppose because babies naturally cry quite a bit even if nothing is particularly wrong.

It grates on my nerves!